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> The frozen vials "were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker while cleaning out a freezer in a facility that conducts vaccine research in Pennsylvania"

Occam's razor suggests that those were put into the freezer decades ago and forgotten, and if they were moved, no one bothered to read the labels until now.

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Now just imagine what you could discover cleaning your own freezer

Ok, what the hell is "bigpox"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis

Syphilis used to be called "the great pox", which is where smallpox got its name from.

"Great pox" is another name for syphilis.

This was the best comment I’ve read on the internet all week. :)

Yeah, I agree. But Occam’s razor rarely makes a good enough story…

Occam's razor is just the inverse of "where's smoke there's fire". It's really not saying much.

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